On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:41, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Some things that were neat/appealing about it were: > > 1) he had made the window title bar semi-transparent > > 2) he'd put images into the menu background > > 3) the menu was semi-transparent, too. > > > > this semitransparency is implemented by XFree 4.x's new Xft library. It only > works under Xfree 4.x and no where else. it is also resource intensive (memory > + cpu). This is 100% a Waimea feature and is not in blackbox, nor will it be > added.
Thanks for the info, Shaleh. I wasn't quite sure how that stuff was being implemented, nor what it would mean for resources -- and since mine are few (366Mhz machine with 96MB RAM), I'll skip it for now. In the meantime, I've managed to create a very nice looking theme, err, style! --Matthew
